Field Recordings, 2021 - Present
Field Recordings is an ongoing project exploring the ideas of climate anxiety and land stewardship through site-specific photograms and temporary installations along a floodplain in Asheville, NC that also serves as neighborhood greenway and the site of my outdoor studio. Trees and bushes are planted and then documented via large-scale cyanotype photograms and other experimental forms of documenting. The resulting images are the visual equivalent of a field recording; abstract yet documentary, ephemeral yet firmly rooted in a specific time & place.
The longer exposures imbue each work with a certain softness that is contrasted by the grid arrangement, which references Robert Smithson’s “Mirror Displacements” and Henry Fox Talbot’s process for making multiples. My goal for this series is to create ongoing portraits of these particular plants that I interacts with daily--a visual way to measure and record life and its inevitable end. Installation photos of exhibitions of this work are coming soon.
